A SHORT COMPARISON BETWEEN THE MORMON
AND THE BIBLICAL GODS
THE MORMON GOD
Mormons believe that there are a great many Gods throughout the
universe, each ruling their own planet. However, the only God with
whom they have to do is their own deity called Elohim; who leads a
married life, and who fathered Christ, all of mankind and the
angelic beings in the normal manner, in a prior spiritual
existence.
Elohim was once an ordinary, mortal man, living on a fallen
planet, just like you and me. After He had progressed
sufficiently and had gained the requisite amount of knowledge,
he was exalted to godhood. When the writer was still a member of
the LDS, they frequently quoted the following couplet from the
pulpit:
As man is, God once was;
As God is, man may become.
According to their own LDS teachings, as their God has a body of
flesh and bone, he is limited to being in only one place at a
time.
THE BIBLICAL GOD
The biblical God is the eternal, self-existing First Cause. He
created and sustains the universe and all that is in it, so
everyone and everything that exists is subject to Him.
Moreover He is unique in that He is, always has been and always
will be the only God in existence. This means that He reigns
supreme over all. (The Bible teaches that all other so-called
gods are false gods, and behind every false god or idol stands
that great deceiver, Satan.)
Because He is spirit, the biblical God's presence permeates the
entire universe. So there is nothing He does not see or know. He
has no limitations as His abilities are infinite. He is
eternally unchanging, immortal and omnipotent, and unlike the
Mormon God He never had to progress in any way. And as He has
never, ever sinned, He didn't ever need salvation or forgiveness.
In other words, the biblical God is, always has been, and always
will be, far superior to mankind in every conceivable way.
The Bible teaches that both mankind and the angelic beings were
created by God, and not fathered by Him biologically as Mormons
are led to believe they were.
The following links lead to articles on this site that amplify the
teachings on both the Mormon and the biblical Gods. Unlike this
short article, they are fully referenced with both biblical and
LDS quotes.
Understanding the Biblical God
The Mormon Gods, Past and Present
The LDS Holy Spirit and Holy Ghost
The Case Against the God of Mormonism
To access a comprehensive index of fully referenced articles
comparing various other aspects of Mormonism with what the Bible
teaches, click on the "home" button at the bottom of
this page.
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